disabling dhcp for eth1 in kernel

[Lloyd T Brown]

Actually, I had a line for both eth1 and eth0 in the ks.cfg.  By some 
random coincidence, eth1 was first, although that may not mean much.  I 
commented out the line for eth1, and the install went straight through.  
Normally, this would probably not set up the eth1 interface at all, but 
the appropriate files for our really weird network setup are being 
copied over in the %post script, so everything should be fine.  It's 
installing right now.  I'll let you all know if I have any other problems.

So, I guess that means that the installer was pulling the ks.cfg over 
eth0, noticed the eth1 line (static, but without any address) and tried 
to configure it.  Do you suppose that the fact that the eth1 line was 
above the eth0 line in the file had anything to do with it?  I may have 
to experiment some more tomorrow.

Thanks again.  You guys have been a great help
Lloyd Brown
BYU Supercomputing (http://marylou.byu.edu)



Harry Mills wrote:

>I would agree with this. It seems that you are mounting the nfs directory successfully and kickstart has downloaded the ks.cfg.
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>Check your ks.cfg for network lines. I have just added this to my ks.cfg for testing:
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>network --device=eth0
>network --device=eth1
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>on top of the entry
>network --device=eth2 --bootproto dhcp
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>Kickstart is now sending DHCP requests for other network cards and failing - then prompting me for manual input.
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>Try removing all network lines from your ks config except:
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>network --device=eth0 --bootproto dhcp
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>and give it another go.
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>Harry
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>On Thu, 25 Aug, Brian Long wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:26 -0600, Lloyd T Brown wrote:
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>>>Yes, the ks log shows the ip address being acquired  correctly for 
>>>eth0.  There's this weird message about it waiting 15 seconds, though.  
>>>I'm not sure what that means.  The message about the eth0 getting a dhcp 
>>>address is followed very shortly by a couple messages stating what the 
>>>IP address for the NFS server is and what the path is to the ks.cfg 
>>>file, so I'm pretty sure it's working correctly.  After that, messages 
>>>about it trying to acquire a dhcp address for eth1 come too, including a 
>>>failure message.  I'll see if I can get something more exact and post 
>>>it, if that'd be helpful.
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>>Do you have "network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0" in ks.cfg?  If you
>>have zero "network" lines, the docs say it's only supposed to use eth0,
>>but I wonder if this might be causing your problems.
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>>/Brian/
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